嚳

See also: 喾

嚳 U+56B3, 嚳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56B3 ← 嚲 [U+56B2] CJK Unified Ideographs 嚴 → [U+56B4]

Translingual

Han character

嚳 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 竹月竹土口 (HBHGR), four-corner 7760₁, composition ⿱𦥯告(GHTK) or ⿱𦥯吿(J))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 214, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4586
• Dae Jaweon: page 436, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 704, character 4
• Unihan data for U+56B3

Chinese

trad.		嚳
simp.		喾

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 嚳 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Emperor Ku (English)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嚳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (告) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
造	*skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
慥	*skʰuːɡs
艁	*skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
糙	*skʰuːɡs
告	*kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
誥	*kuːɡs
郜	*kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
祰	*kʰuːʔ, *kuːɡ
靠	*kʰuːɡs
浩	*ɡuːʔ, *kuːb
晧	*ɡuːʔ
皓	*ɡuːʔ
窖	*kruːɡs
簉	*skʰruɡs
梏	*kruːɡ, *kuːɡ
硞	*kʰruːɡ, *kʰuːɡ
牿	*kuːɡ
鵠	*kuːɡ, *ɡuːɡ
酷	*kʰuːɡ
焅	*kʰuːɡ
嚳	*kʰuːɡ
頶	*ɡuːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰuːɡ): phonetic 學 (OC *ɡruːɡ) + semantic 告 (“to tell”). 告 (OC *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ) may also be a phonetic component.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kù (ku⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): guk¹ / kuk¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): gók
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kog⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷khoq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kù
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kù
    • Wade–Giles: kʻu⁴
    • Yale: kù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuh
    • Palladius: ку (ku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: guk¹ / kuk¹
    • Yale: gūk / kūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: guk⁷ / kuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: gug¹ / kug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊk̚⁵/, /kʰʊk̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gók
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kouʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khok
    • Tâi-lô: khok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɔk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kog⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khok
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰok̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷khoq
    • MiniDict: khoh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴khoq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰoʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khowk

Rime
Character	嚳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	沃 (6)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦沃切
Baxter	khowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰawk̚/
Li Rong	/kʰok̚/
Wang Li	/kʰuok̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰuok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ku
Expected Cantonese Reflex	huk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰuːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嚳
Reading #	1/1
No.	3826
Phonetic component	告
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	酷
Old Chinese	/*kʰuːɡ/

Definitions

嚳

1. (historical or mythological) Emperor Ku
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to be urgent; to inform quickly

Compounds

• 帝嚳 / 帝喾 (Dìkù)

References

• “嚳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嚳

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. mythical emperor
2. to inform quickly
3. an urgent communication

Readings

• Go-on: こく (koku)
• Kan-on: こく (koku)
• Kun: つげる (tsugeru, 嚳げる)

Korean

Hanja

嚳 (eum 곡 (gok))

1. mythical emperor
2. to inform quickly
3. an urgent communication